-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Richard wrote: |>My spam filter says: Yes, this is in my spam pool, but I don't know |>whether it is related to this list. | | My emailaddress is used only for this | list and is published nowhere else. That's why I asked here. | | Cheers, | Richard Funny, I noticed the same thing earlier today; within seconds of posting to this list, I received that very same email. I sent this email to all possible admin contacts just to sound a bit threatening and to see if I get a reply: - ---SNIP--- ~ Dear List Administrator; ~ I hereby demand (on behalf of maginetworks.com) the ~ IP address of the computer that has registered the ~ email address "administrator@maginetworks.com" to ~ your mailing list as well as the date and time that ~ this was done. Furthermore, I wish for the above ~ mentioned address to be removed from any such ~ mailing lists you operate. - ---SNIP--- Their administrative contact seems to be LD3695 (NIC Handle), perhaps I should write a more appropriate letter to him to see if I can get a reply. Also, I am sending this email from a "virgin" account... Perhaps not, SuSE doesn't seem to accept that... J. Theriault administrator@maginetworks.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/2OcU0lOMuR0OVK0RAoy2AKCKak4WUZaf1z8Ps68uYPxyG9+y2ACeMTl1 CkZ7seiL/RHHu0vBMeqVtpw= =B+MM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

Why doesn't SuSE just strip the sender's email address from all the emails that are posted to this list, AFTER mailing the subscribers list first, and BEFORE archiving them on the SuSE server for reference purposes. Then only list members would have access to each other's email addresses, and they would not be available from the archives on the net for the whole world to see (and harvest). (Do a Google search with your own email address and see what happens)! If anyone reads the archives on the webserver, and wants to reply to the sender, then they will have to join the list like the rest of us, and post to the list (if they are not already on mailing list). Off-list discussions could continue on the understanding that PRIVATE email addresses are not included in any further emails to the public mailing list. HTH - Kind Regards Keith Roberts On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, GertJan Spoelman wrote:

To: suse-security@suse.com From: GertJan Spoelman Subject: Re: [suse-security] Curious response

On Thursday 11 December 2003 21:41, Richard wrote:

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My spam filter says: Yes, this is in my spam pool, but I don't know whether it is related to this list.

My emailaddress is used only for this list and is published nowhere else. That's why I asked here.

That's one of the reasons why I post to this list without revealing my email-address, previously I also used an separate email-address only for this list, spammers are still trying to deliver spam to it. --

GertJan

Email address is invalid, so don't reply directly, I'm on the list.

On Friday 12 December 2003 12:48, Richard wrote:

I don't think that would have helped in this particular case. Judging from the mere SECONDS between my mailing the list and my receiving this spam I'd say this is done by a subscriber to the list.

Here is what I assume: Somebody has subscribed to this list with an address that is used to subscribe to another list. E.g., if I would subscribe to the list suse-security by using the address suse-security-announce@suse.com then everybody who sends a message to suse-security@suse.com would get a message from the ezmlm programme managing the suse-security-announce@suse.com mailing list. /Sven

Why doesn't SuSE just strip the sender's email address from all the emails that are posted to this list, AFTER mailing the subscribers list first, and BEFORE archiving them on the SuSE server for reference purposes. YES PLEASE!!!

There's of course various things that we can do ourselves but I feel that including the real sender-address is not desirable anymore. Peter